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		Since we launched this Web site in November, 1998, we have been overwhelmed by the encouraging words we’ve received from women all over the world. We thought we’d share a few of our favorite comments: “I’ve been constantly traveling for the last five years and many times had a feeling not too many people relate to my passion. Most of the population thinks you are weird and unstable. It was great to read about your concept and even the comments you received from other women and know I’m not alone. I wish you lots of luck. I know I would love to read it.” – 25-year-old writer from Vancouver, BC “Alright, it’s about time! My whole life people told me it’s not safe to travel. At age 42, I flipped out, bought a ticket to Europe, kissed my husband and kids goodbye and left on my first adventure. Now I’ve begun to empower my daughters through travel. Watching them get through a subway system in Japan was great because we live in a small town outside Cleveland Ohio that has one bus.” – 44-year-old artist from Painseville, OH “Please make sure that you include a few articles written by women of color and their travel experiences. I am an Asian female who is frustrated that most accounts are written by white North Americans, Europeans and Australians.” – anonymous “Your journal sounds very compelling in terms of topics, ideas and approach . . . a forum that enables us, as travel does, to look at our own culture and environment more critically and compassionately.” – 44-year-old anthropologist from Oakland, CA “FINALLY! Thank you so much for going ahead and making this happen.” – 26-year-old student from New York, NY “I am a woman who loves to travel and to write about it. These are my passions. It will be wonderful for a forum to exist where women can share their adventures and revel in each other’s ideas and inspiration. Women are not represented enough in this genre of male explorers and conquerors. Thank you!” – 23-year-old educator/student from Hartford, CT “I love every word and image on this Web site. I look forward to reading about my favorite subject from a feminine perspective. This is just the forum needed to showcase the great talent and wisdom that exists, but is so hard to find collectively.” – 34-year-old diagnostic image technologist from Tamuning, Guam “Don’t end up beating us over the head with politics -- I agree with what I’ve read of your goals, but I’d be turned off if they end up predominating.” – 36-year-old TV news producer from Branford, CT “Looks great – beautiful Web site and presentation. I love your philosophy of writing and travel as it fits with mine.” – 41-year-old mother from Ontario, Canada “You certainly have a wonderful, exciting idea and I look forward to following its realization. I am so tired of seeing information about hotel prices and sightseeing labeled as travel writing. Thank you already for redefining what a journey can truly mean for a person.” – 33-year-old editor/writer from Washington, DC “Try to incorporate words and stories of women native to the countries in which your writers are traveling/have traveled.” – 26-year-old writer / teacher from Chicago, IL “Since birth I have been given the gift of wanderlust and it has only been in the last three years that I fully understood that and acted on it. ... Kudos for starting something that is sure to touch a lot of women’s lives.” – 26-year-old consultant from Vancouver, Canada “I think it’s a great idea ... there are other magazines out on women and travel, but I don’t think any of them deal with the subject the way you say you are going to. Good luck.” – 39-year-old writer from New York, NY “I love the idea. Most travel magazines look the same, but I’d read this one often.” – 49-year-old teacher from Missouri “Looks fantastic. What a terrific name.” – 33-year-old writer from Georgia We also thought we’d share some answers to the question “Why travel?” – “Traveling has made me aware of what I need vs. what I want. I find I can get by on much less now that I have traveled. Seeing people lacking material possessions leading a peaceful and satisfying existence makes me want to strive to find such happiness with what I have.” – 31-year-old teacher from Berkeley, CA “To expose myself to the widest range of experiences possible. To learn and broaden my sense of wonder.” – 54-year-old nurse from Mineral Wells, Texas “Travel is the best investment a person can make in oneself. Exposure to different cultures, food, and people is incredibly enriching.” – 28-year-old salesperson from Miami Beach, FL “To be passionately in the present moment and out of my everyday itinerary allows me the privilege of looking inside myself and rediscovering my own wonderfully funny, spiritual personality, which gets taken over by everyday concerns of money, what to cook for dinner, and laundry.” – 44-year-old investment banker in San Diego, CA “To drop out of my circumstances and try on some others.” – 63-year-old librarian from Boston, MA “To challenge myself and to satisfy an intense curiosity about the world.” – 28-year-old analyst from Melbourne, Australia There’s that amazing feeling of sitting around a table at one o’clock in the morning sharing beers with an Aussie student, two Norweigian girls, a Canadian computer consultant who just left her job with a one-way ticket and two guys who come to the place every week, discussing soccer, or international relations or racism or whose country makes better beer.” – 22-year-old teacher from New York, NY “To learn a new way of seeing and of being, to connect with people at a new level, to connect with myself and the Earth. To renew my vows as a human being.” – 39-year-old waiter/writer from San Francisco “To see a bit of the world before it’s too late.” – 19-year-old college student from Ontario, Canada “I travel so that others may enrich my life, and I hopefully enrich theirs in return . . . I am constantly amazed to find subtle similarities among us all, yet we are so alien to each other.” – 34-year-old artist from Santa Barbara, CA “I’d like to expand my world view by visiting places that have completely different values and living standards than the United States. I want to experience that difference and have it challenge what I take for granted.” – 32-year-old student from Berkeley, CA “My main reason is because I can’t not travel.” – 28-year-old journalist from England “It’s a passion.” – 28-year-oldgraduate student from Oklahoma “. . .the ‘bout damn time’ meow of my cats when I return home.” – 37-year-old writer/office manager from Washington “To test my limits, to experience different ways of being, and to understand myself.” – 33-year-old non-profit coordinator from Oregon “To see how other people live: how they see things and understand what things are important to them and why.” – 30-year-old computer consultant from Illinois *Please add your voice to the mix by filling out our* *survey*.